cookies

cookies

Cookies

This site uses cookies. Most websites do this. Our cookies aren’t used to identify you personally, they’re here to make the site work better and allow us to analyse how it’s being used. You can delete these cookies as you wish, but some aspects of the site may not work correctly without cookies.

Specific Cookies Used

Google Analiyics Cookies — These cookies are used to track how people use the site. These cookies include _utma, _utmb, _utmc, and _utmz.

Account Cookies — If you have an account or comment on this site, cookies are used verify you are the same person when you are logged in, and your preferences. These include cookies beginning with wordpress_ and wp-settings-.

Cookie Message — Once you have been informed about cookies, a cookie is stored to track that you have seen the message, and it won’t be shown again. This cookie is named icc_cookie_message.

Cookie Name

Cookie Category

Description

Duration

wordpress_

2

WordPress cookie for a logged in user.

session

icc_cookie_message

unknown

unknown

wp-settings-

1

WordPress also sets a few wp-settings-[UID] cookies. The number on the end is your individual user ID from the users database table. This is used to customize your view of admin interface, and possibly also the main site interface.

1 year

__utmt

unknown

unknown

__utma

2

This cookie keeps track of the number of times a visitor has been to the site pertaining to the cookie, when their first visit was, and when their last visit occurred. Google Analytics uses the information from this cookie to calculate things like Days and Visits to purchase.

permanent

__utmb

2

__utmb is a Google Analytics cookie. It takes a timestamp of the exact moment in time when a visitor enters a site.

session

__utmc

2

__utmc takes a timestamp of the exact moment in time when a visitor leaves a site.

30 mins

__utmz

2

Keeps track of where the visitor came from, what search engine you used, what link you clicked on, what keyword you used, and where they were in the world when you accessed a website. This cookie is how Google Analytics knows to whom and to what source / medium / keyword to assign the credit for a Goal Conversion or an Ecommerce Transaction.

6 months

wordpress_logged_in_

2

WordPress cookie for a logged in user

session

wordpress_test_

2

WordPress cookie for a logged in user

session

wordpress_test_cookie

2

WordPress test cookie

session

wp-settings-time-

2

WordPress also sets a few wp-settings-{time}-[UID] cookies. The number on the end is your individual user ID from the users database table. This is used to customize your view of admin interface, and possibly also the main site interface.

1 year

PHPSESSID

1

To identify your unique session on the website

session

SESS

1

To ensure that you are recognised when you move from page to page within the site and that any information you have entered is remembered.